After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

It was recently announced that Grammy Award winner Coco Jones would perform the national anthem for this year's College Football Playoff National Championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Now that we've heard her sing,

The game broadcast will begin at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN. Before the game, Grammy award-winning artist Coco Jones will perform the national anthem. “America the Beautiful” will be performed by the Spelman College Glee Club. Fittingly on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his daughter Dr. Bernice A. King will participate int he coin toss.

Coco Jones performed the national anthem Monday at the national championship game in Atlanta ahead of Ohio State vs Notre Dame.

Grammy-winning singer Coco Jones will perform a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to Ohio State and Notre Dame game.

Here's what you need to know about Monday's national anthem performer before the College Football Playoff championship game.

The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will battle it out for the US national championship in Atlanta today.